Ultrastar

Western Digital on Monday introduced its new special-purpose SSD designed to speed up in-memory processing applications. The new Ultrastar DC ME200 Memory Extension Drive uses proven hardware and comes with special software that creates virtualized memory pools.
From hardware standpoint, the Ultrastar DC ME200 belongs to the Ultrastar SN200 family launched about two years ago. The drive is based on a proprietary controller and paired with Western Digital’s 128 Gb planar MLC NAND memory. The drive comes in U.2 and PCIe 3.0 x8 HHHL card form-factors, making it drop-in compatible with most existing x86 servers. WD is offering 1 TB, 2 TB, and 4 TB versions of its Ultrastar DC ME200 drives, all rated for up to 17 drive writes per day over a three-year...

This week Western Digital has introduced a new breed of HGST-branded server-class hard drives targeting “mainstream” applications that require 24/7 availability as well as enterprise-grade reliability and performance, but...

Western Digital this week announced two high-end HGST Ultrastar families of SSDs designed for high-frequency workloads in cloud and hyperscale environments that require instant response time. The new drives...